#Autism Spectrum

[matchakuracat]

since it is autism acceptance month and i am autistic, please send me money and i will accept it❤️

#autism acceptence month #autism #autism awareness #autism spectrum #autistic #actually autistic #autistic things #joke

[neurovarious]

autistic culture is feeling like you're a different species. autistic nonhuman culture is actually being a different species

#&c. #chatter chatter #🔭☁️ #autistic #autism spectrum #nonhuman #alterhuman #i don't identify with these but they're fitting tags so -> #therian #otherkin

[neurodivergenttales]

Cannot overstate the panic and dismay I feel when people's responses in a social interaction do not follow the multiple scripts that I have invented and rehearsed in my head prior to the interaction

Suddenly all my preparation is thrown out of the window and I'm having to juggle masking, listening and processing a thousand variables at once

#neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #actually autistic #late diagnosed autistic #asd #autistic things #autistic #neurodiversity #autism spectrum #unmasking autism #autistic masking #masking #actually autism

[dimentiorulesblog]

“Autistic people need special accommodations” and “autistic people should not be infantilized and talked down to” are schools of though that can and should co-exist.

#actually autistic #autism #autistic community #autistic experiences #autistic spectrum #autistic things #being autistic #audhd #autistic feels #actually disabled #actually autism #autistic #autism spectrum #actually audhd #autism acceptance #autism awareness

[lifewithchronicpain]

According to The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, can affect children's language development and communication in a variety of ways. While some children with ASD may encounter difficulties communicating verbally, others exhibit impressive vocabularies and the ability to speak on specific topic areas in detail. A new study led by Boston University neuroscientist Dr. Andrey Vyshedskiy examines these unique pathways of language development in autistic children. Published in npj Mental Health Research, this research, encompassing data from over 31,000 autistic individuals, stands as the most extensive of its kind on language comprehension acquisition in autism. Dr. Vyshedskiy's study supports an idea he had more than two decades ago: that language learning for autistic individuals doesn't happen in a straight line but goes through three different stages. In this Q&A, he discusses the key takeaways from the research, and its implications for clinicians, educators, and caregivers. (Read more at link)

#autism #autism spectrum #actually autistic #nerodivergent #language #disability #article #study

[snakeautistic]

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

#autism #actually autistic #autistic thoughts #autistic experiences #neurodivergent #autism spectrum #asd #autistic #neurodivergence #thoughts

[fallenstarcat]

sometimes i feel like people forget autism is a disability. and that’s not a bad thing! i’m all for disability acceptance, im proud of my disabilities. but i feel like we forget autism can hurt.

it hurts that i have to put more time and energy into socializing than others.

it hurts when i need to move so bad, usually cause im overwhelmed by either my surroundings or emotions, that i thrash and hurt myself.

it hurts that i cant be in places that are too loud or too bright, which on bad days can be as simple as a small, quiet noise or dim lights.

it hurts that i struggle to tell when im hungry, thirsty, tired, etc. so i can’t properly take care of myself. it doesn’t help my insomnia and i get very nauseas and get UTIs.

i 100% believe in autism acceptance. i don’t want a cure. but i also want us the acknowledge that it can hurt. it doesn’t mean my entire life will hurt, but some parts will. and i want a community where we can see both sides, see the hurt, and celebrate it anyway.

#autism #autistic #actually autistic #actually autism #autism acceptance #autism acceptence month #autistic things #autistic experiences #autistic community #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum disorder #autism spectrum #disabled #disability #disability pride #disabled pride #disabilties #autistic life #autism life #autism advocacy #neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #neurodiversity #neurodevelopmental #developmental disabilities #developmental disability

[theorahsart]

Way way back I drew a comic explaining what we really mean by ‘The Autism Spectrum’ and posted it here back when Tumblr was Huge. Then the comic really blew up!! Last year I did a remake of the comic, with some updated language, and using Mia, a character from a graphic novel I made. Figured I’d share for Autism Acceptance Month!

#Autism Acceptance #autismacceptance2023 #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism comic #autism art #autism #autism spectrum

[glitchedcosmos]

One thing about me and my mutuals is we will be on a spectrum autistic?, aromantic?, asexual?, gender?, you name it were on it you’ll find me on every goddam spectrum

#catch me in all of the above #aromantic #asexual #agender #aroace #ace #acespec #arospec #autism #actually autistic #autism spectrum #aromantic spectrum #asexual spectrum #nonbinary #trans #lgbt

[neuroticboyfriend]

once again thinking about how fucked up it is that special ed used me and other disabled children as unpaid, coerced labor. i worked enough to be making $100 a week. i was "paid" in fake money redeemable only at the school cafeteria, which i worked at, and was forced to do things that distressed me. they gave us $1 a week, if they remembered to give it to us at all.

this was while i would sometimes go the entire day without eating because i didn't have the money to buy food and the free food was not sensory safe. we also worked outside the community - grocery stores, warehouses, shoe stores security tagging items. all under the guise of job skill development, we did $100 of labor a week without ever getting paid. and we were demeaned while we did it. and we were just teens.

so no, i don't want to hear about how special education is good. not with the way me and my peers were treated and taken advantage of. death to institutionalization, in all forms.

#softspoonie #disabled #special education #special ed #disability #disability rights #disabled community #neurodivergent #special needs #autistic #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum disorder #autism spectrum #autism #neurodivergency #ableism #sanism #systemic ableism #unpaid labor #labor rights #workers rights #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #working class #leftist #leftism

[thatadhdmood]

an eloquent take down of the "people are self diagnosing autism to be trendy and for attention" take that morons have been echoing on tiktok

[video description is the reblogs, its very long]

#actually autistic #autism #thatadhdmood #adhd #actuallyadhd #autistic #autistic adult #neurodivergent #autism diagnosis #autistic culture #autism spectrum disorder #autistic experiences #autism spectrum #late diagnosed autistic #late diagnosis #late diagnosed autism #adhd diagnosis #actually adhd #autism tiktok #nd tiktok #neurodivergent tiktok #neurodivergencies #nerodiversity #video described #video description

[merlintintintin]

A short story about disability and friendship.

#disability #autism spectrum #my art #birds #merlin draws #digital painting

[willtheweirdrat]

Being audhd is so wild cause I'm like "yeah, i'll move to another country, change my name, convert to another religion, and leave all this behind" and then have a meltdown over a small change in my routine

#wills mumbles #audhd #adhd #autism #autism spectrum #asd #autism spectrum disorder #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually audhd #autistic

[galacticscrotum]

Neurotypicals all need to be reminded that if you made fun of someone in school for being “weird,” you were making fun of autistic people and that’s ableist and wrong. If you don’t educate yourself and change, you’re a bad person.

Things I saw kids get made fun of for:

Walking on their toes

Communicating directly

Not making eye contact

Making too much eye contact

Having special interests

Not having the right interests

Having few friends

Trying to make friends

Being “too” happy

Feeling overwhelmed

Being shy

Not talking much

Talking too much

Having fun being silly

Being serious

Doing well in class (nerd)

Doing poorly in class (stupid)

Any noticeable stims

The way we eat

A lot of other shit

Yeah, those kids were neurodivergent and you were an asshole to them. Do you see all the contradictions in that list? You never actually had a problem with anything we did or didn’t do. You had a problem with our existence. The way we talked, walked, breathed, you bullied us for it.

What’s even more disgusting and insane:

Lots of these kids chose to spend their elective periods with the special ed kids class. Lots of them grew up to be teachers, SpEd teachers, psychologists, etc. not because they want to help autistic people, but because they want to feel superior.

A big fuck you to all of the bullies and jerks that treated us like shit simply for being different from you.

I hope you’ve changed, but I know you probably haven’t. You’re doing the same shit, all that’s changed is you’re getting paid for it now. Go to hell. (A very particular section of hell where you’re marginalized for your neurotype and forced into ABA therapy and treated exactly how you treated us).

#autism #autistic women #autistic #neurodivergent #actually autistic #adhd #audhd #actually audhd #actually adhd #actually neurodiverse #actually neurodivergent #autistic adult #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum #autism things #autism community #autistic life #autistic problems #neurodivergent problems #adhd problems #audhd problems #being autistic #being neurodivergent

[samijami]

YO BITCHES AUTISTIC PEOPLE CAN BE TRANS TOO

DON'T MATTER IF THEY GOT NO DAMN IQ, OR IF THEY SMART AS ALBERT FUCKING EINSTEIN

WE ALL DESERVE THE RIGHTS TO TRANSITION IF WE FUCKING WANNA

#transgender #transgender rights #trans rights are human rights #trans lives matter #support trans kids #protect trans kids #trans kids #autistic things #autism #actually autism #actually autistic #autism acceptance #autism community #autism spectrum #autism spectrum condition #autism spectrum disorder #autistic community #autistic positivity #autistic spectrum #being autistic #autistic pride #transgender pride #trans pride #trans autistic #transgender autistic #autistic trans #autistic life #trans rights #fuck transphobes #tw ableism

[snakeautistic]

Please, for the love of god, leave me CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS!!! If you think it’s implied, I promise you that to me it is not. If you give me poorly worded or vague directions I’m gonna spend half an hour stressing over the potential different ways to interpret them and either become paralyzed with indecision or inevitably interpret them the least correct way possible

#actually autistic #autistic rant #autistic thoughts #autistic experiences #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergent experience #asd #autistic things #autism spectrum #neurodivergence